Hunger Games

The Hunger Games
At this time, most of the people, especially those who have nothing, are willing to do anything or even sacrifice himself just for the sake of someone he loves. The movie, “The Hunger Games,” is all about friendship, family, problems of the society and being you as an individual.
Nowadays, it is very obvious that most of us want an equality which can never be happen. In the movie, I saw that there’s a barrier between rich and poor. Rich people make the poor ones as their entertainment while poor people do nothing but to follow. Like our government, it is visible to us that having a position in government makes them superior. In just a blink of an eye everyone follows, everyone becomes a slave, and everyone is powerful when you are in a position. Wrong doing becomes a trash when it pertains to our government. They do nothing but to buy anything even the service of our dear servants. Money is very powerful, where it can buy anything.
As a citizen we have the rights to fight for what is right! We should know how to act for something that we want to accomplish. Come to think of it, without us government officials are nonsense. We are the reason why they are in that position that’s why we are responsible for their good doings. Not because we’re poor they have the rights to do anything they want. Those corrupt government officials must be jailed. They don’t deserve to be respected because the stole some of the money that is not for them. Instead of doing different projects, which can help the Filipino citizens, they use the money for their luxuries.
Katniss is a very brave woman; she sacrificed herself for the safety of her young sister. Like what we’ve always said, “Family comes first”. She became the representative of their district, district 12. She has nothing to do but to save her life to the battle that she had been playing. In that battle there are only two options, it’s either you win or you lose. Because life is a game its either we do anything for us to survive or to do nothing and die. In order for us to survive we should trust ourselves. Always think that you have a purpose or you have the reason to do something great for us to win. Trust yourself that nothing is impossible for a person who believes in herself as created by God. We all have something to be proud of. Katniss was called as a “Girl on fire” because it symbolizes herself. She’s like a fire, which is hard to beat up.
In the battle of life, we need to know who the real enemy is and keep an eye on the competition. Katniss met Rue in the game. In a short span of time, she treated Rue as her young sister and a friend. They help each other in order to survive in the competition, but something bad was happened. Rue was being attacked by their enemies while Katniss is doing something to destroy some of the stocks from their enemies. She made a hand gesture, which means goodbye, thank you or rebellion. It is very important that you keep an eye on the completion because we don’t know what will happen. Someone may show you good things but behind your back he will stab you. We don’t who is real and who is not. It’s difficult to trust someone; the only one who we’ll trust is God and ourselves.
As an individual, it is really important for us to be liked by someone. In the movie, in order for you to survive one of the secret is to let the people like you. When they liked you, they might help you or give you something that will help you to continue the game. Smile and be yourself. Let the people to like you in a way that you don’t hide something from them, instead, they like you for being what and who you are.
They said, “Past is past”. The past should not affect the future of something. Peeta give Katniss a bread in such a bad way, but as we can see in the movie they become a good partner to survive. They pretend that they love each other so that they will allow having a two survivor in the game. Life is like poke, you win or you lose.…...

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The similarities between the Hunger Games and the times of Roman Gladiators are hard to miss. The Hunger Games are that in itself a game. In both the Gladiator fights and the Hunger Games the fighters and tributes were taken by force and were left with no choice but to take part in the games.
The games occur annually and it is set up by the Capitol to show the other 12 districts of Panem that the Capitol rules over them and they are in charge. It also serves as a reminder to the price of rebellion against the Capitol. The hunger games consist of twenty-four teenagers, a male and a female from each twelve districts and that range in ages of twelve to eighteen. They are put in an arena and have to battle each other in a gruesome battle until there is one survivor that will be declared the winner.
The Roman Gladiator games are held multiple times throughout the year at festivals, funerals, and for mere entertainment. The games served a number of purposes in roman society like the education of roman values and even as a means of social control. These public
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The Hunger Games is about Katniss Everdeen a 16 years old girl, who lived in Panem. Katniss decided to volunteer for the Hunger Games in order to replace her younger sister. The annual event "Hunger Games" selected one boy and one girl from each of the twelve districts of the Capitol to compete in a battle until only one individual remains. Peeta and Katniss were chosen from the same district and were instructed to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the other tributes. When Peeta had the oppurtunity to kill Katniss he instead decided to save her even though he joined the tributes from the richer districts. Midway throughout the game, a rule was changed which allowed Katniss and Peeta to win the Hunger Games as a couple. When they remained the last two surviving tributes, the rule was reverse to force them to kill the other in order to win the game.
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New York Times, John Green- “Brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced”
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Genre: Dystopian Fiction
Director’s Name: Gary Ross
Adapted From The Novel and Author: “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins
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...In the post-apocalyptic future of The Hunger Games, the country is ruled by a totalitarian, fascist government. The government conducts these annual games as a reminder of what power they hold over its citizens. This film can be analyzed sociologically, for there are many examples of class conflict, ideology and whether the film can potentially happen to our future.
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...from you family and friends? Been forced into a game where to stay alive is the only way to win? That is what the hunger game is. A violent game that 24 contestants are chosen to fight one another and the winner will never have to work again. In the Hunger games Suzanne Collins uses characterization to show how Katniss uses survival techniques the love for her family and friends and tested her trust to the people around her.
The love Katniss show in the book is very relevant right at the beginning of the book when Prim, Katniss younger sister, is choose to be in the hunger games. Katniss’s love for her sister propels her to volunteer and take Prim’s place in the Hunger Games. She knows that if she goes into the hunger games she will die but does it anyway. Katniss doesn’t just love her sister she also loves her mom, the town she lives in, and a boy named Gale. She desprentaly want to go home once she leaves and fights for her freedom to go home throughout the book. Her relationship with gale is confusing to her but reader know that she loves him “Finally, Gale is here and maybe there is nothing romantic between us, but when he opens his arms I don't hesitate to go into them” (Collins 38) She tries to deny it but readers should be able to figure it out.
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Author: Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic Corporation
Publishing year: 2009
Book length (pages): 391
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Catching Fire the second installment of the hunger games trilogy. This time around Katniss and Peeta who already won the games and are touring around the districts. Soaking in the fame and glorious Capitol-life; supposedly…
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Catching Fire is a continuation of The Hunger Games. Katniss and Peeta have returned from the arena and are now going on their obligatory tour around the district. President Snow, the leader of Panem, is seeing Katniss as a treat to the establishment and wants to get rid of her. ......

...Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games is the first novel in a trilogy that explores a future dystopian society. The story is set in "a country that rose up out of the ashes" of North America, after survivors of droughts, storms, fires, floods, hurricanes, and wars fought for their lives. This post-apocalyptic world is run by Panem, an all-powerful central government that controls the people and resources of twelve districts. Each district produces different products that are taken to the Capitol, the headquarters of Panem, where they are used as luxury items. Meanwhile, the twelve districts struggle to survive, often under the heavy and oppressive hands of armed guards. Security fences prevent escape, and brutal tactics keep the people under control. One such tactic is the staging of the annual Hunger Games, where, in a lottery, two children are chosen from each district to fight to the death in an arena while the entire country watches on television. The Hunger Games are a punishment for a time in the past when the twelve districts rose in rebellion against the Capitol and were defeated; a thirteenth district was even completely destroyed. Panem has staged the Hunger Games ever since to chasten the people, remind them of their uprising, and warn them that if they rebel again, they will all be destroyed. Once in the Hunger Games arena, the children (called "tributes") fight until only one child is left; the remaining tribute and his or her family are awarded lives of ease, along...

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Collins uses a totalitarian government to call attention to how powerful our government can be if we become even less involved in political activities to show just how helpless we are against such a power. In The Hunger Games, there are twelve districts in total that succumb to the will of the Capitol; a very harsh and cruel government. The districts must listen to each and every law and order that is given to them. Failure to comply with the Capitol’s rules could potentially end up in an execution of many people or worse. The destruction of the districts. There was a thirteenth district, but because of the uprising beforehand, the Capitol decided to annihilate them in order to show the districts their superiority over them and to also show what’ll happen if another uprising appears again. This is seen when the main character, Katniss Everdeen, speaks out her mind about the Capitol: “Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand surviving another......

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The book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins can be described as an intertwining story of love and survival. Katniss, the unlikely heroine, volunteers to take her sister’s place in the annual Hunger Games, a blood bath between two tributes of each of the twelve districts fighting to be the last one standing. As a tribute from the coal district Katniss sets ablaze the Games with her sacrificing herself for her family and her budding romance with her fellow tribute, Peeta. To Katniss the romance is all part of an act. Through her perspective the fact Peeta truly loves her is not thoroughly recognized but it becomes obvious as the story progresses.
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...The Hunger Games begins on the day of the reaping in District 12. Katniss Everdeen, the story's 16-year-old narrator, sets out to meet her friend Gale so they can do some hunting and gathering before the reaping that afternoon. As Katniss makes her way from her home to the Meadow and, finally, to the woods, where people of the district are forbidden to go, we learn about Katniss' life in the impoverished part of her district, the Seam, and her family. She thinks about her sister Prim, who is 4 years younger, and her mother, both of whom have depended upon Katniss for survival ever since Katniss' father died in a mine explosion when she was 11.
The reaping is a nerve-wracking time because it determines which boy and girl, ages 12 to 18, will serve as the district's tributes in the Hunger Games. Two tributes are drawn in each of the 12 districts, and those tributes are sent to an arena where they fight until only one tribute remains alive. The victor gets to return home, and the victor's district is showered with gifts — namely food. The Games, put on by the Capitol, are meant to punish the 12 districts of Panem as well as to remind them of the Dark Days and how the 13th district was obliterated for its uprising against the tyrannical and cruel Capitol.
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...Throughout the novel The Hunger Games, the author makes powerful statements about consumerism and commodity culture, privacy and performance. Consumerism is portrayed in the name of Katniss’s district. While commodity culture is seen in the Hunger Games, the portrayal of the Capitol and it’s residences. Statements about privacy are made whenever Katniss has to be aware of what she’s saying. Examples of performance are seen in Katniss throughout the entire novel.
A big example of consumerism in the novel is the nickname given to Katniss’s district. In the beginning of the book Katniss says, “Our part of District 12, nicknamed the Seam, is usually crawling with coal miners” (4). It is also mentioned in the book that District’s 12 main exports to the capitol is coal. By definition a “coal seam” is a single layer of coal in the ground, while a “coal bed” is many seams stacked on top of one another. There is more coal located in a bed, meaning more coal can be mined from it. Katniss even says, “The people before us mined coal as well. So the miners need to go deep in order to mine anything”. That paints a picture of manifest destiny. The Capitol believes there is always going to be more coal or something better if they keep having District 12 mine deeper and deeper. But based on District 12’s nickname and what that nickname means, there might not be as much coal available, as the Capitol would like to believe.
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